As it makes its decent, they both melt into a raindrop as it's entering the lower levels of the atmosphere sleet will refreeze into basically an ice pellet.
In central New York a resident, the human kind, took this time lapse video as a recent storm blew over and Godzilla is ultimately coated by what the resident says was a mixture of sleet, snow and freezing rain.
A storm system affecting 25 states was blasting its way across the country bringing sleet, snow and ice from the southwest to the northeast, from New Mexico to New Hampshire.
Millions of people across the southern and central parts of the nation are bracing for an ice storm which could pose a triple threat: ice, sleet and snow.
As for the roadways, rain will lead to soggy conditions at times for Interstates 95, 85, 75, 40, and 70. There will also be a rain-snow mix for the upper Midwest and interior New England.
And above average precipitation as rain, snow, or icy mix that's forecast from the Plains to the Southwest could be welcomed after a summer of extreme drought.
Thousands remained without power across the southeastern United States after a massive winter storm dropped snow, sleet and freezing rain on five states.